beard ひげ @beardalaxy@gameliberty.club

as a sidenote, i think this is part of what makes competitive smash so appealing to. none of these people are making any fucking money. other than like, the people who are sponsored you know. but the tournament winnings are paltry compared to other fighting games where the devs contribute money to them. fuck, nintendo borderline HATES competition for smash. yet they persist anyway because they just like playing the game, and they like competing in it. you know they have passion for what they're doing, it's just raw.

and this is kind of how i feel about my own game, too. i've poured so much of my life, time, and money into it that the money i stand to make doesn't matter much anymore. sure it would be cool to make a lot of money off of it, but i didn't set out to make a game that would earn me a shit ton of money. i wanted to make an RPG i would enjoy playing. something that i would be super proud of.

i think the main thing that separates games back then from games today is the money. you can tell when a game was made because someone wants to make a game versus when someone wants to make money off of a game, even if only subconsciously.

devs used to make money from their games because they were good, because they wanted to make a game that was awesome.

now, devs have all these ways to maximize profits on their games instead of just making a good game. and it works, they get more money, but they also spend more money, and slowly lose fans.

signing up for a musician thing and they don't have the ability to upload audio files for your audition, only video files. also, you can upload JPGs and PDFs for some reason xD

So, just watched the new Silent Hill 2 Remake trailer. Already thought the game was going to bad but I didn't expect it to be THIS bad. Original on the right.

Doesn't surprise me that they hired a consultancy company for this. The only consultance they should have had was the original game itself.

And it's not just this either. The character animations are weird and stiff and not in the good way like in SH2. The voice acting is retreading the same thing that sucked about the HD version, where it sounds way too manufactured and "Hollywood." There is still a weird focus on combat. Angela screams out "tell him I'll be good I promise" which was not a line in the original game and confirmation that Bloober is changing things and that's going to upset the balance of how this game was handled. It seems like extremely amateur writing that is going to be shoving things in the player's face. There's your "modern audience" I guess.

Just like the last two SH2 games ("game" in the case of Ascension), this stuff all makes Downpour and Homecoming look god-tier in comparison.

the new Simple and Clean Re-Recording from Utada Hikaru is a bit of a letdown. I love the vibe it's going for a lot, but her voice sounds super processed. You can hear the artifacts from it from time to time :( It's super noticeable in the bridge.